YUI ajax request timeout override(share/proxy/alfresco call)

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zladuric

Hi,

I'm developing a Share dashlet which waits for user to fill in the form and then emails a lot of other users. Now, I'm doing the emailing part via a webscript, and I'm trying to get this webscript to work through an Ajax call. There are a lot of users in this group and the mail server isn't the fastest in the world (shared hosting server) So the mailing takes a bit, about 2-3 minutes.

            Alfresco.util.Ajax.request({
               url: url,
               method: "GET",
               responseContentType: JSON,
               timeout:null, // tried varying this in many ways
               successCallback: {
                  fn:this.mailSent,
                  scope: this
               },
               successMessage: "Sent",
               failureCallback: "Failed sending"
            });    
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Now, my problem is that the requests always timeout at 90 seconds.

The webscript completes its task, but I cannot get a result on the Share side and show it to the user. The script still finishes the job, but I don't get info. Tried different browsers. Tried setting the timeout to more and to null and avoid it completely.

Now, an interesting point, I tried calling directly in the browser:

http://192.168.254.21:8888/alfresco/service/pbk/mail-announcement?id=200859‍

This worked!
But via proxy:

http://192.168.254.21:8888/share/proxy/alfresco/pbk/mail-announcement?id=200857
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it timeouts (ie. empty response after exactly 90 seconds).

Can somebody tell me what setting should I look for/change?  How can I do this differently?

zladuric

For what it's worth (and for future unhappy user stumbling on this thread, I've found out where this timeout is set.

It's hardcoded in RemoteClient class in spring webscripts framework (/org/springframework/extensions/webscripts/connector/RemoteClient.java):

    private static final int CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 5000;  // 5 seconds
    private static final int READ_TIMEOUT = 180000;    // 90 seconds ‍‍

Hopefully somebody else won't stumble on this too.